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Sam Martin Barnett Biography
Contributed by: David Donahue |
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This material was
originally donated to the TNGenWeb where it shall remain in Legacy.
This information was taken from Goodspeed's History of Tennessee published
in 1886/1887. |
San Martin Barnett, farmer, blacksmith and manufacturer, was
born in Benton County, Tenn., June 1, 1839, the eldest of five children of
Mansfield C. and Mary (Barnett) Barnett, and is of English and French
descent. His parents were born in Humphreys County, Tenn., in 1812, and
1810, and died in 1863 and 1853, respectively. The father resided in Perry
County the greater part of his life. Our subject resided on the farm and
attended the common schools, and after this learned the blacksmith's
trade, which he has followed, in connection with farming, up to the
present time. He owns 104 acres of land and is comfortably situated in
life. During the late war he enlisted in the Fifth Regiment Tennessee
Infantry, Confederate States Army, and served under Col. W. E. Travis. He
participated in the battles of Shiloh and Murfreesboro, where he acquitted
himself as a gallant and trustworthy soldier. He was finally discharged
(1863) after a service of over two years for disability. He belongs to the
Masonic fraternity, and is a liberal thinker in religion, and an active
Democrat in politics; He is unmarried. |
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